Battle of Newburn Ford: A seminal fight between Scots and English over imposition of a prayer book.
Location is some four miles west of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, about 300 miles north of London. The site is on the line of Hadrian's Wall Path.
The catalyst for the battle was a decision by King Charles I to
impose a prayer-book on the Scots. This was the only battle of the
Second Bishops War but triggered a sequence of events which led to a
vicious civil war in England, (1642-1651) execution of Charles I (1649) and imposition of a
republic under Oliver Cromwell (1653-1658)
The actual battle site is substantially intact and accessible by car and on foot.
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